Contract type: Permanent
FTE: 1 FTE
Grade: L15 - L21
Location: Castle Batch Primary School
Closing Date: 8th March 2026
Proposed Interview Date: 25th & 26th March 2026
Proposed Start Date: 1st September 2026
Are you an experienced leader who has evidence of impact in raising standards and is ready to support us to fulfil our ambition to provide a great education for every child?
We are committed to attracting and developing next generation school leaders who will establish our schools as beacons of learning within their local communities where every child, irrespective of their background, achieves and flourishes.
Following the retirement of the current Headteacher we have a vacancy for an exceptional, ambitious Headteacher to lead Castle Batch Primary School from September 2026.
About us
At Castle Batch Primary School, we nurture happy, resilient, and confident learners. Located Located in near Weston super-Mare, close to Junction 21 of the M5 and a local train station, our inclusive school combines academic excellence with a deep focus on physical and mental wellbeing. With spacious grounds and a dedicated staff, we foster a culture of respect, high expectations, and a lifelong love of learning.
About the role
The role of Headteacher is central to the school’s vision for excellence, inclusion and ambition. As the school’s strategic leader, the Headteacher ensures that high quality teaching and learning sit at the heart of every decision, driving a culture where ambitious goals, strong pedagogy and evidence informed practice enable every child to thrive. They shape the school’s direction with clarity and purpose, empowering a skilled team, maintaining a relentless focus on pupil achievement, and ensuring that safeguarding, behaviour and attendance create a calm, purposeful learning environment.
Working closely with trust leaders and fellow Headteachers, the Headteacher translates the trust’s mission into meaningful action, fostering a collaborative, values driven community where pupils experience a rich, inclusive education every day.
About You
You will be a talented and experienced leader with a proven record of achievement in primary education, bringing strategic thinking and the ability to create sustainable plans for now and the future. You will be a motivational leader who inspires staff and pupils alike, committed to our ambition and determined to support every child to make progress from their starting point.
You lead with courage, curiosity and compassion, and bring a reflective, pragmatic approach that values continuous improvement and the sharing of knowledge. Your communication style is confident and clear, enabling you to build strong relationships across the trust, the school and the wider community. You understand the power of collaboration, the importance of high expectations, and the impact of thoughtful, values driven leadership.
We offer you
- Teachers Pension Scheme: Secure your future with the Teachers’ Pension Scheme, one of the most generous and reliable public sector schemes in the UK. As a member, you will benefit from an exceptional 28.6% employer contribution. The TPS provides a guaranteed, inflation-proofed income for life, calculated based on your career earnings. With built in peace of mind, including a tax-free Death in Service lump sum, it ensures that your long-term financial well-being is as robust as your professional legacy.
- Enhanced Sick Pay: Generous enhanced sick pay scheme during illness or unexpected sickness related emergencies, so you can focus on what matters most- your recovery.
- Family Friendly: Enhanced leave packages to support your work-life balance.
- Great team dynamics: Become part of a highly collaborative professional community, working with inspiring senior leaders and colleagues and sharing ideas, resources, and best practice across our family of schools.
- Central partnership support: You will benefit from access to high-quality central services and specialist expertise, providing strategic support to enable you to focus on leading teaching, learning and school improvement.
- Continuous Service: Full recognition of prior service for benefits (Modification Order) which protects and enhances employment entitlements including sick pay entitlement, job security and protection of employment rights and access to family friendly leave.
- Exceptional CPD: Dedicated budget and time for your professional development.
- Diversity & Inclusion: A proactive commitment to creating a workspace where diversity is celebrated.
- Other benefits including access to an employee assistance programme available 24 hours a day 7 days a week to support your life outside the school gates.
About The Priory Learning Trust:
To find out more about the Priory Learning trust and this role, please refer to our candidate recruitment pack attached
Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early.
The Priory Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All roles across the trust have a varying level of responsibility for ensuring safeguarding practice, with some roles holding significant responsibility and involving working with children on a daily basis in regulated activity. Regardless of the level of responsibility and involvement in each role, we expect all staff, visiting professionals and volunteers to share this commitment.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. Successful candidates will be required to provide a disclosure of any unspent convictions and cautions, as well as any spent convictions or cautions that are not ‘protected’ (i.e.filtered) under the Amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975 (2013 and 2020).
All appointments are subject to a comprehensive pre-employment checking process. This includes an Enhanced DBS check (including a Children’s Barred List check), satisfactory references, medical fitness, Right to Work in the UK, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching/management check. In line with KCSIE guidance, we will also conduct online searches on all shortlisted candidates.
Our full Recruitment and Selection policy is available on our website.
This role involves working with children on a daily basis and is therefore in regulated activity.